Gaz wrote:
> "Nick" wrote in message
> news:68g1lqF2rvog9U1@mid.individual.net...
>> Gaz wrote:
>>> Colin Wilson wrote:
>>>>> should be harassing badly behaved youths by openly filming them
>>>>>> ffs - Innocent until ........... the police take a dislike to you.
>>>>> Surely if they are badly behaved , then they *aren't* innocent?
>>>> What a shame the involvement stops at filming them...
>>>>
>>>> Zero tolerance time - stop them for dropping litter, drinking in
>>>> public, no lights on bikes etc.
>>>
>>> That would seem a more legitimate use of police time, instead of just
>>> harrasing them, how about enforcing the existing law. I wonder when the
>>> last time a kid riding a bike with no lights at night was either
>>> prosecuted or given a warning? I see it all the time. You can pick the
>>> sodding things up in Poundland, for erm, a pound!
>>>
>> Yes I often see motorists not wearing seat belts, time for a police crack
>> down!
>
> 'Crack downs' are the policing equivalent of poor parenting. You know the
> bad parents, who let their child get away with murder but then loose their
> temper and beat ten piles of crap out of them, and then let them get away
> with murder again, and then lose their temper etc etc.
>
The point I was trying to make is that crimes like kids riding without
lights or adults not wearing seat belts are not crimes that really
affect other people. My view would be that it is not appropriate to make
them crimes in the first place.
On the other hand it does seem likely that the police would have more
effect acting as mobile social workers than they do attempting to tackle
serious crime.
> Gaz
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